Engineer's Return
I am a riffle lover myself and can’t really get myself to use hammer on pve.
That said, scrapper traitline, IMO, is way too much linked with hammer its stuns (#5-#3 combo) and function gyro is very useless on most pve scenarios.
For overland pve and dungeons I run something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlUUh+uYfWwkLQ7FL5F13+9fB44HmElIYCGAVFA-TxBBABB8AAwa/R5Re6AqU9nzUCCwFAoMlYBAOAO/8Aw5nf+5nfeTf+5rv+5FCY0CA-e
It gives you a lot of speed to run around the map (riffle jump+rocket boots+supper speed+swiftness) and get 100% crit chance (70% from gear, 10% from close range, 20% from fury). I use bombs autoattack when I can melee, and with the blind fields from mortar and smoke bomb, you can melee a lot. Also, bombs are PBAoE, so its great to clear trash. You also get a lot of breakbar potential with BoB, overcharged shot, healing turret detonation, magnet and all the soft CC (glue bomb, net shot, blinds and chills).
If you get a good rotation you can include a good amount of might stacking with all the blast finishers (turret, OS x2, BoB, RB) but you need 2 fire bombs to get them all to trigger (AFAIK). Kinetic battery is great as you can get 2 BoB or 2 OS on a row, and they do a LOT of dmg, or you can use healing mist twice for extra healing with blasts.For WvW scrapper is great for the added defense. Someone posted a riffle scraper build around.
Figured, I definitely noticed other traitlines and the benefits of Scrapper not helping anything but the Hammer much, that’s good to know though! Thanks for the build template for Rifle
I probably will never be able to stack a lot of might or the other things as I find it all confusing but maybe now and then I’ll try to figure it out a bit, thanks again!
Figured, I definitely noticed other traitlines and the benefits of Scrapper not helping anything but the Hammer much, that’s good to know though! Thanks for the build template for Rifle
Its just getting use to when to use skills.
– If you are dpsing, use OS right before Fire bomb.
– If you are removing a break-bar, use fire bombe before BoB.
– When fighting enemies with break bar, save your burst (blunderbuss, jump shot, prybar) to right after you stun the opponent, as they get extra dmg.
You can contact me in game if you need any help.
(but I live in NZ and got weird play-times)
Figured, I definitely noticed other traitlines and the benefits of Scrapper not helping anything but the Hammer much, that’s good to know though! Thanks for the build template for Rifle
Its just getting use to when to use skills.
– If you are dpsing, use OS right before Fire bomb.
– If you are removing a break-bar, use fire bombe before BoB.
– When fighting enemies with break bar, save your burst (blunderbuss, jump shot, prybar) to right after you stun the opponent, as they get extra dmg.You can contact me in game if you need any help.
(but I live in NZ and got weird play-times)
Could probably take tips in game as it’ll be easier to see in person some time, would be nice
Wahoo and heya
I would change the build a little bit and also split and adapt it to the situations:
- Bloodlust is the perfect sigil for open world and will increase your dps drasticly (10%), aslong as you don’t die ofc.
- I’d pick No Scope over Skilled Marksman, since without it you won’t get a reliable Fury uptime. Skilled Marksman isn’t really a good trait unfortunately (miss the old days…). The attack speed increase is only “noticable” on the already weak auto attack, and has no effect on Jump Shot, while the cdr is neat but stands in no relation to Fury from No Scope.
- Reactive Lenses can be used as a safe stunbreak, but if you want to go full dps, Static Discharge it is.
- Adrenal Implant beacuse of Excessive Energy. Kinetic Battery is great on condi builds though, since Excessive Energy won’t affect condi dmg.
- Crit chance is fine as full zerker, due to 20% from fury (part time en solo), 10% from High Caliber and 10% from Hematic Focus (total +40% crit chance).
- Only cheap food for open world
- You don’t need fury nor cdr for a rifle here, so Pinpoint Distribution will boost you the most. 10% of your damage is condi and in a party setup you will have over 1k condi damage with this.
- You won’t need movement speed unless your party has no Mes / Ele / Rev … unless your party has a bad comp, so you can focus on damage and go with Takedown Round.
- With Spotter from the Druid use power utility food and in general you should use damage on movement food for max dps.
- Air instead of Bloolust since there is nothing to stack and you’ll have over 100% crit chance anyway. Night for nighttime areas.
If you have any questions or want ingame help (EU), pm me anytime!
Greez!
- Ziggy
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
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“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”